On 5 September 2007, Karen Coyle wrote:
> Bill, I was aware that Google used different rules for different
> countries when it came to determining whether to show a full text -- do
> you have any reason to believe that it's your location that is causing
> the difference?
Well, if I search for "cutter rules for a dictionary catalog" then the
first hit is this version of the fourth edition, from U Michigan's
collection:
http://books.google.com/books?id=38YYAAAAMAAJ&q=cutter+rules+for+a+dictionary+catalog&dq=cutter+rules+for+a+dictionary+catalog&pgis=1
I can't read the book there. Because the search terms are specified, it
looks for the words in the book, and to the right of the contents I see
three one-inch-high strips from the cover and pages 1 and 3, where
"Cutter," "Rules," and "catalog" appear and are highlighted. Then there's
a link with anchor text "Where's the rest of this book?" to:
http://books.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43729&topic=9259&hl=en
There's a brief explanation there, but there must be some kind of mistake
in the metadata about Cutter's books because they are undoubtedly in the
public domain eveywhere.
Over at the Internet Archive's collection, if you search for "charles
cutter" you get Cutter-Sanborn tables and his catalogue of the Boston
Athenaeum, but sadly not his Rules.
http://www.archive.org/details/texts
I must add that I had a tour of the Internet Archive's book digitization
factory at the University of Toronto a couple of weeks ago, and it was
incredible, a crazy futuristic man-machine hybrid churning out 1300 books
and five terabytes of data a week. Thirteen digitizing stations are in
use 14 hours a day.
Sorry to stray off-topic, though these digitized versions of old books
will be part of future catalogues, undoubtedly. I imagine the Internet
Archive's will be tied in with their Open Library.
Bill
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Received on Wed Sep 05 2007 - 18:38:53 EDT